Thursday, November 08, 2012

Speaking of the filthy rich

Rove even suffered the indignity of being insulted on Twitter by the
blustery Donald Trump, who had attended Romney's election night party
here on Tuesday night, but left early after it was clear that Obama had
won a second term.

Okay it is only fitting that Trump flew his private jet to Boston for a stay long enough to get the best prawns and then left...and then went back to deranged twittering with his stubby fingers.

Although there is no indignity being tweeted about by Trump, all the indignity starts at the end of the tweeter's vienna sausage-like digits.

Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas casino magnate who gave Mitt Romney’s
super PAC $20 million, also backed a heap of Republican candidates who
lost last night. The Forward reports:

“In
Virginia, Tim Kaine won the governorship over George Allen, whose super
PAC had received $1.5 million from Adelson. In Florida, Bill Nelson won
the Senate seat over Connie Mack, who Adelson had backed with $1
million. And in New Jersey, Adelson-backed Orthodox Jewish Republican
Shmuley Boteach lost to Democratic incumbent Congressman Bill Pascrell.”

In
addition, Adelson backed Allen West, who wound up losing his House seat
in Florida. The one bright spot for Adelson was Shelley Berkley’s loss
to Republican Dean Heller in Nevada’s Senate race.